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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Hillcrest Avenue woman reported to Village Police on November 25 that an unknown man wearing a black jacket and hat had knocked on her door shortly after midnight and asked for money. The woman called police and saw the man go behind her house and into the woods nearby. Responding officers searched the area but could not find the man.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Officers were called to a Layton Avenue residence with a report of a fraud scam that had spurred a woman to withdraw a large sum of money from her bank with the intention of turning it over to an unknown person who had taken control over her laptop computer. A police officer escorted the woman back to her bank where it was confirmed that no more money had been taken out and she redeposited the cash she’d withdrawn.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A woman called Village Police to the front desk of a village hotel on November 30 because, she told them, the staff there had treated her poorly during her stay and was refusing to let her speak to the hotel’s owner to document her complaints. Staff told police that they had offered to take her contact information and have the owner contact her the following day. The woman refused and asked police to document her tale of how she had been treated during her stay. A short time later, police were called to a Main Street restaurant where the same woman was causing a disturbance when told that there were no tables available. She had approached people dining at other tables asking them to move. Police escorted her out of the restaurant and to another one nearby where she was given a table.
SOUTHAMPTON — A stationary license plate reader on County Road 39 near Hills Station Road alerted Southampton Town Police on November 25 to a vehicle whose owner has had his driver’s license suspended eight times for failures to answer summonses in Nassau County and had an active arrest warrant for failing to appear in Southampton Village Justice Court on a previous violation in 2023. An officer located the vehicle a short time later near Magee Street, and the driver, a 53-year-old Manhasset man, was charged with two additional counts of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree as well as driving with a suspended registration, all misdemeanors. He was released with a new order to appear in court at a future date.
HAMPTON BAYS — A customer at a Montauk Highway fitness studio called police on November 25 to report that when he had gone into the gym to work out he had placed his wallet, containing $200 cash, in the glove compartment of his vehicle. When he returned a short time later he noticed that his credit cards were spilled onto the floor of the car and found that the cash was missing from the wallet.
SOUTHAMPTON — A Locust Avenue resident reported to Town Police on November 25 that she’d been alerted by her bank that two checks deposited into her account were fraudulent. She said she had not deposited the checks but that she’d recently been getting calls from an unknown man who claimed that the two checks were meant for him but had been mistakenly deposited in her account and that he wanted her to give him the money. When she declined, he then threatened to send nude photos of her to family, friends and her church. Police advised her not communicate with the man and not to send him any money.
FLANDERS — A Flanders woman told police that she had responded to a Facebook Marketplace posting for a home for rent on Hart Avenue and that a man purporting to be the owner had demanded that she send a $2,400 deposit in order for her to be shown the property, which she sent to him on November 25 via Zelle, but the man and two other individuals then contacted her asking her to send more money to secure the rental. She became suspicious and contacted police. They suspects have been identified as Brooklyn residents but police have not named them since the investigation is ongoing.
HAMPTON BAYS — A Hampton Bays teen reported to police on November 26 that his bicycle had been stolen from outside the Hampton Bays Public Library on Ponquogue Avenue. The bike is a blue Specialized dirt bike with blue fender flares.
WATER MILL — An Edge of Woods Road resident reported to police on November 27 that she had received a call from a man claiming to be a Bank of America representative who said that a wire transfer had been initiated from her account and asked if she wanted to cancel the transaction, which he said required her Social Security number and other personal information. She hung up and called Bank of America who informed her that a wire transfer had been made subtracting money from her account.
EAST QUOGUE — A Lewis Road resident reported to police on November 28 that scuba diving equipment had been stolen from his house. He informed police that he suspected that a person he knows had taken the items and while he was speaking with police received a text from the suspected person confirming that they did, in fact, have the scuba equipment. The man asked that criminal charges be pressed but an arrest has not yet been made.
HAMPTON BAYS — An Old North Highway resident reported to police on November 29 that someone had stolen $1,400 from a dresser in his house. Police are investigating.
HAMPTON BAYS — A Riverhead resident reported to police on November 29 that he had paid $2,750 to a bank account belonging to a person who claimed to be the landlord at a Shinnecock Lane residence. When the man went to the house, a woman there said that she was the homeowner and does not know who the other person the man had sent money to is. The bank account where the money was sent was given to detectives, who are still investigating.
RIVERSIDE — An employee at the 7-Eleven reported to police on November 30 that a man he was familiar with had come into the store, taken several items off shelves and run out without paying. The employee showed a picture of the man to a responding officer who also knew the man as a repeat petit larceny offender. An arrest has not yet been made.
HAMPTON BAYS — Police were called to a report of an altercation at a Springville Road house on the afternoon of December 1, where they were told that Anyelo Barenfaller, 41, of Hampton Bays had threatened another man with a knife. Barenfaller was arrested and charged with menacing in the second degree, a misdemeanor, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a felony.
HAMPTON BAYS — A Springville Road resident reported to Town Police on December 1 that a check for $3,000 had been cashed out of her account twice, with the check number apparently altered in between. Both checks were cashed by a person she had hired to build a shed for a client.
HAMPTON BAYS — Daniel R. McNamara, 33, of Riverhead was stopped at a DWI checkpoint on Flanders Road shortly after 9:30 p.m. on November 27 and an officer detected the scent of burnt cannabis emanating from his vehicle. The officer reported that the driver had bloodshot, glassy eyes and was unsteady on his feet and spoke with slurred speech. Police said he performed poorly on a standard field sobriety test as well as on an advanced roadside impaired driving enforcement, or ARIDE, test, a newly developed test to identify drivers impaired by drugs. He was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor, and held overnight for arraignment the next day in Southampton Town Justice Court.
